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Anything you said after the bold, I was most likely going to agree with. Remember when he said, at the start of the third, that the Sabres weren't the kind of team that would just set back against Vehhgus. That they would keep coming,... just two games after the Colorado game, where the only shot they had in the third was the empty net goal. I definitely think it's a combination of personnel and coaching. Their cycle just looks different and better than it has the past decade. They send pucks to areas before there's even a guy there, but they get there. And I think instead of doing all that work to just fling pucks on net (as per Rob Ray) they are doing that work to fling pucks to guys open in a high danger area. (Hope that makes sense).

Wow. That is something. Where did you get that graphic?

I watched the Toronto/Philly game yesterday. I thought that the TO PBP guy talked while play was going way more than Dan. He also never said score or goal on the one that I saw.

Didn't they get Boosh?

They would just rename it to the Stand Your Ground defense.

What is normal? My normal is staying in, having a drink by the fire and playing my bass. Weather changes nothing for me.

Meh. If they were like my parents, they most likely had a freezer filled with half a cow, and shelves of canned goods that would have lasted months. The only stress was would the beef fridge run out. Not new snow! Though. Most of it was blown in of off the frozen lake.

Wiki sucks. It just crowd sources people’s faulty memories. NOAA say 12 inches of new snow in ‘77.

This was covered on the first page of this thread. I said there was zero new snow in that storm and was proven wrong. I looked it up and he was right.

They all are.

He knows what he said!!!😂

I’m probably going to just stay in tonight and watch The Day After Tomorrow.

I have never seen so many players skate towards the blue line with a full head of steam, and then stop, and pass it backwards. So dumb.

Actually, Ralph kept everyone from producing.

Me too.

Ugh. My complaint. I put a mousetrap in the drop ceiling in my basement. It’s gone. Really hope I find it with my eyes before I have to find it with my nose.

Nobody misses Risto. And I’m not sure if anyone ever said he was good. I know we were all hoping that he would get good, because he had an aspect to his game that none of our other defensemen had. It wasn’t until Samuelsson came into his own last year that we had another Dman that could win those physical 50/50 pucks on the boards. And we have guys that still can’t do it. Again, nobody misses Risto. What’s next, a thread about how bad Eakin is? I thought (hoped) we were done hearing about these guys once they were gone.😂

Pretty sure that 1 agains Colorado was the ENG as well. “Deserve’s got nothing to do with it.” Interesting. Yet another aspect of of the game that is not reflected in the xG stat.

I think you forgot about my Vanek injury take.

It was definitely the right call.

Wasn't that the second one called on us this year? Yep. Just checked. CBJs had one against us as well. I think we'll see it again.

In the end though, all that matters is what the teams in front of us do. Why not? When the Ducks won their cup. Neidermayer and Pronger regularly played well over half the game. We’ll be seeing starting goalies by February. I don’t think we’ll have to worry about what will happen in the playoffs.😂

My turn for night night. Good luck, fellas.

So have back-up goalies.😂 Oh, no he d'int!

The kids haven't looked all that great tonight. It's amazing how much better VO an Mittlestadt look away from each other.